No, I just meant that I'd consider a Simpson crossing in winter less of a gamble than parts of Africa. There's minimal risk of dealing with bribes, getting remo

No, I just meant that I'd consider a Simpson crossing in winter less of a gamble than parts of Africa. There's minimal risk of dealing with bribes, getting remotely near a conflict zone, encountering guns/weapons, etc. Not saying that's the norm in Africa, but it's certainly nowhere near the norm here. In three weeks I'm leaving my safe middle class Adelaide existence to re-renovate my 300k km mileage bus and drive it around the USA again with my young children. Not because it's safer, just because it's more fun and adventurous! Stock tyres at walking pace. Pulled off the road to photograph an old Ghan bridge and there might've been barbed wire underneath the grading gutter that got both tyres on that side.